Senior Solution Consultant / Solution Architect – Salesforce Core

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Job CategoryCustomer Success GroupJob DetailsSenior Functional Consultant / Functional Architect – Salesforce Core

Location: office / remote based in DACH

Department Description

Salesforce Customer Success Group (CSG) are a team of trusted advisers, partners, and experts crucial to the success of our customers. We help customers unleash the full power of Salesforce, find and implement technical solutions, and provide guidance on how to build new products for our customers’ needs.

Our EMEA team is growing and we are looking for architects to join us across multiple countries. We hire into two distinct roles, each working with and adding value to customers in different ways.

We can consider your application for both opportunities and will determine role seniority in the interview process together with you.

Role Description

Salesforce Functional Architects collaborate with our most strategic customers and partners during project planning and implementation and are building valuable relationships both internally and externally.

The Functional Architect will hold end-to-end functional responsibilities as it relates to the analysis, design, built, test and deployment of enterprise level solutions. This includes the assessment of viable solution options, providing industry best practices, formulating and presenting solution options to various levels of management and influencing and directing decisions that result in optimal customer success.

The Functional Architect can communicate effectively to various audiences in the forms of architectural diagrams, functional capabilities, business process efficiencies, and business value realization and is the trusted advisor for business and technology stakeholders. Finally, with experience in software delivery cycles based on agile methodologies the architect supports and is in close alignment with project management activities.

Your Impact

• Ensure sustainable, scalable, best practice solutions to meet and exceed customer needs
• Guide consultative engagements with customers on their process, business and technical challenges
• Building sustainable relationships with key stakeholders and team members
• Where required, act as lead architect for the overall engagement by coordinating and aligning work of multiple architects on the team
• Close alignment with project and engagement managers to support planning and implementation in close collaboration with the customer
• Develop and maintain numerous project deliverables that support the solution design to include discussion documents and other project artefacts
• Understand and present high-level overviews of the Salesforce Core architecture and integration capabilities
• Where required, hands-on application configuration to meet customer needs
• Collaborate with Salesforce partners, engineering, product management, and extended project team for all engagements
• Identify, lead or contribute to internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice, such as internal innovations, building up a strategic brand, and increasing teammates’ skills by knowledge sharing
• Where required, support deep-dive pre-sales activity to position successful delivery of Salesforce solutions
• Contribute to broader goals by becoming a citizen philanthropist and give back to our communities by joining or leading volunteering activities
  

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years relevant consulting experience
• Ability to quickly understand customer’s processes and connect business requirements with the functional capabilities of the application
• Extensive experience in the assessment of business objectives, formulating solution options, and driving stakeholder support
• Solid experience in leading workshops to define and prioritize customer requirements. Ability to challenge during workshops and suggest best practices and efficient ways to design the best solution for the customer.
• Effective experience with software development lifecycle with ability to support project planning.
• Team player with effective communication skills across a variety of audiences and situations
• Ability to quickly learn & adapt to new situations
• Willingness to travel when needed
• Fluent English
  

Preferred Requirements

• 10+ years relevant consulting experience
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience collaborating with a strategic delivery team
• Business Process Engineering/Re-engineering background
• Existing experience with increasing responsibility and management/mentoring of junior consultants
• Advanced CRM experience (sales, service, marketing)
• Fluent German or B2 equivalent level
  

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